May 16, 2001
99 min
Full-HD

In Praise of Love (2001)

Someone we hear talking - but whom we do not see - speaks of a project which describes the four key moments of love: meeting, physical passion, arguments/separation and making up. This project is to be told through three couples: young, adult and old. We do not know if the project is for a play, a film, a novel or an opera. The author of the project is always accompanied by a kind of servant. Meanwhile, two years earlier, an American civil servant meets with an elderly French couple who had fought in the Resistance during World War II, brokering a deal with a Hollywood director to buy the rights to tell their story. The members of the old couple's family discuss heatedly questions of nation, memory and history.

Category

Drama

Country

France Switzerland Germany

Companies

Avventura Films Périphéria ARTE France Cinéma Vega Film TSR ECM Records StudioCanal DFF - Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum Studio Images 6

Bruno Putzulu

Edgar

Cécile Camp

Elle

Jean Davy

Grandfather

Françoise Verny

Grandmother

Audrey Klebaner

Eglantine

Jérémie Lippmann

Perceval

Claude Baignières

Mr. Rosenthal

Rémo Forlani

Mayor Forlani

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